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diplomats in libya. but biden claims the white house didn't know about security requests. >> we weren't told they wanted more security. we did not know they wanted more security again. >> reporter: but the former regional security officer in libya told a congressional committee that he asked for additional security for benghazi months before the attack and was denied. it's not known for now how high up in the administration his request got. >> he was speaking directly for himself and for the president. he meant the white house. these are issues appropriately that are handled by security professionals at the state department. and that's what he was talking about. >> reporter: the president's spokesman is right. typically the state department deals with security for its personnel on its own. so we rate this unclear. the vice president claims the house republicans cut funding for embassy security. >> i will be very specific. number one, this lecture on embassy security, the congressman here cut embassy secu
diplomats in libya. but biden claims the white house didn't know about security requests. >> we weren't told they wanted more security. we did not know they wanted more security again. >> reporter: but the former regional security officer in libya told a congressional committee that he asked for additional security for benghazi months before the attack and was denied. it's not known for now how high up in the administration his request got. >> he was speaking directly for...
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but as you saw at the last debate, the president did very well on the libya question. they're going to have to have a better way of handling it coming into this. >> i'm sure that romney will try as often as he can to pivot some of these international issues to domestic economic issues by pointing out if the u.s. has a weak economy, has huge deficits and needs to borrow money from china it's that's going to resonate for him as well. >> hees had an advantage on him on who do you trust more to do something about the deficit and that's an issue he's been hammering and china is directly related to that so i suspect he'll talk about that a lot. one thing i hope they'll talk about, i think the big defining issue for obama is how he's dealt with the arab spring and there's a debate on both sides about the classic tension about supporting democracy and supporting our extra teeblg i can interests in the region. there's a big debate in the republican part on this issue. other folks who say no, we should have prevented in egypt the muslim brotherhood for coming to power. so i'll b
but as you saw at the last debate, the president did very well on the libya question. they're going to have to have a better way of handling it coming into this. >> i'm sure that romney will try as often as he can to pivot some of these international issues to domestic economic issues by pointing out if the u.s. has a weak economy, has huge deficits and needs to borrow money from china it's that's going to resonate for him as well. >> hees had an advantage on him on who do you trust...
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consulate in libya. but when romney thought he'd caught the president falsely portraying his comments at the white house the day after the attack, the gop nominee inadvertently gave mr. obama an opening. >> you said in the rose garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror. it was not a spontaneous demonstration, is that what you're saying? >> please proceed, governor. >> i want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in benghazi an act of terror. >> get the transcript. >> reporter: the obama campaign is not only pointing to what the president said in the rose garden. >> no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the value we stand for. >> reporter: the president also notes his comments the following day. >> no acts of terror will dim the light of the values that we proudly shine on the rest of the world. no act of terror will go unpunished. >> reporter: in the
consulate in libya. but when romney thought he'd caught the president falsely portraying his comments at the white house the day after the attack, the gop nominee inadvertently gave mr. obama an opening. >> you said in the rose garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror. it was not a spontaneous demonstration, is that what you're saying? >> please proceed, governor. >> i want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he...
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change in libya. i don't think he has to run on the record in libya. it's unfortunate we keep politicizing the death of an american hero. that's not my advice. my advice is the last part of the debate, please ask questions that might be relevant beyond the talking points. there's a global youth bulge happening all around the world. and there's not jobs for half of the world's young people. >> population explosion. >> these people hit the global job market, what are we going to do about that? there's the climate change issue out there. we may have to redraw the world's maps. that's going to create incredible conflict. can we please talk about some of the issues that are actually likely to impact the next 10, 20 years in america and not just go with today's talking points? >> the youth unemployment issue, which i completely agree with you on that, in my opinion, is the real cause of the arab spring. when there's 50% unemployment, whether it's in baltimore or benghazi, people eventually are going to take
change in libya. i don't think he has to run on the record in libya. it's unfortunate we keep politicizing the death of an american hero. that's not my advice. my advice is the last part of the debate, please ask questions that might be relevant beyond the talking points. there's a global youth bulge happening all around the world. and there's not jobs for half of the world's young people. >> population explosion. >> these people hit the global job market, what are we going to do...
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the recent unrest in egypt and libya ginn the gop nomine a chance to draw a contrast. but experts observe taking on an couple bent president comes with fundamental disadvantages. >> i mean the president doing this day in and day out, getting the intelligence briefings, working with all of the cabinet secretaries, working with his staff. for romney, he has to learn this every day and it all seems a little bit abstract. for the president, might have been abstract four years ago. it sure isn't now. >> reporter: now, as for those new poll number it is obama campaign says that the state of the race remains what it's always been, quote, close and competitive in the key battleground states leaning toward the president. kate? >> be sure to keep tracking the polls and see just how close it is as we approach november. dan lothian with the president this evening, thanks so much, dan. >>> and go ahead. >>> foreign policy battle continues right here in the "situation room" later this hour with a top adviser from each campaign to join us live. looking forward to that. >> two senior
the recent unrest in egypt and libya ginn the gop nomine a chance to draw a contrast. but experts observe taking on an couple bent president comes with fundamental disadvantages. >> i mean the president doing this day in and day out, getting the intelligence briefings, working with all of the cabinet secretaries, working with his staff. for romney, he has to learn this every day and it all seems a little bit abstract. for the president, might have been abstract four years ago. it sure...
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consulate in libya? here's a sampling of some of the controversy. >> i give secretary clinton credit for taking responsibility. i wish president obama and joe biden would also take responsibility. i think the administration has a lot to explain back on the day this story broke, they told misleading stories, confusing stories, contradictory stories, the reality almost every word they've said has been disproven. >> if you look at what mitt romney has done since the moment this thing happened is play politics with him. go back to the 47% tape, you know, he said he was looking for a foreign crisis to try to exploit during this campaign. >> it would be stunning to me for our national security team not to inform the president back in april and june. and it's stunning to me that the vice president denies any knowledge of the security situation in benghazi, libya. i find that almost impossible to believe. >> all right. let's discuss the political fallout from this in our strategy session. joining us our cnn cont
consulate in libya? here's a sampling of some of the controversy. >> i give secretary clinton credit for taking responsibility. i wish president obama and joe biden would also take responsibility. i think the administration has a lot to explain back on the day this story broke, they told misleading stories, confusing stories, contradictory stories, the reality almost every word they've said has been disproven. >> if you look at what mitt romney has done since the moment this thing...
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mission in libya made repeated requests for increased security in benghazi." the letter then continues. the mission was denied these resources by officials in washington. the house democratic leader nancy pelosi is here in "the situation room." let's get to some of the news. let's get your reaction right now to what chairman issa and congressman chaffetz are saying? >> i think it's important the congress has the right to know, but the department of state has to have the information. there is investigation by the fbi as to what happened in benghazi. and there's a review answering some of the questions asked. but how can you ask the secretary to come before the information is known? it's also important to note that the republican appropriation in congress gave the administration $300 million less than it asked for for the state department including funding for security. >> are you suggesting that there was a financial aspect to what happened in benghazi, libya? that the u.s. didn't have enough money to protect american diplomats? >> no. what i'm saying is congre
mission in libya made repeated requests for increased security in benghazi." the letter then continues. the mission was denied these resources by officials in washington. the house democratic leader nancy pelosi is here in "the situation room." let's get to some of the news. let's get your reaction right now to what chairman issa and congressman chaffetz are saying? >> i think it's important the congress has the right to know, but the department of state has to have the...
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ambassador to libya. romney campaign officials and gop lawmakers are hammering the obama administration over it with some even suggesting a cover-up. here's a sample of what they were saying on the sunday morning talk shows. >> inconsistencies here and what we're saying is that, you know, as americans we deserve to know what really happened going in to this attack. >> 11 years after september 11th, americans were attacked on september 11th by terrorists who preplanned to kill americans. that happened and we can't be in denial. >> they're trying to spin what happened in libya because the truth of the matter is al qaeda is alive and well and counterattacking. >> strong words. let's talk about it with a former nato allied supreme commander wesley clark, retired, of course. rich williamson, an adviser to the romney campaign. general clark, i'll start with you. has the white house been completely forthcoming in its information on libya? you hear what those republicans were saying. >> well, first of all, i'm no
ambassador to libya. romney campaign officials and gop lawmakers are hammering the obama administration over it with some even suggesting a cover-up. here's a sample of what they were saying on the sunday morning talk shows. >> inconsistencies here and what we're saying is that, you know, as americans we deserve to know what really happened going in to this attack. >> 11 years after september 11th, americans were attacked on september 11th by terrorists who preplanned to kill...
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he was the lead security officer in libya who testified last week about hearing. he said as early as february he was warning he didn't have enough men. he was curtailing diplomats to get in benghazi. couldn't even move around because he didn't have enough men. and the u.s. felt it was so important in this election period to get out there. he warned having no movements of almost upwards of ten days severely limited operations in benghazi. wolf, he goes onto say i have been placed in a very difficult spot. and the security professionals warned that five armed guards, most of, you know, the other countries in benghazi at the time had about five security guards. the u.s. wanted five, sometimes there were five. sometimes there were three. and even some of these other countries pulled out of benghazi because they felt it was too dangerous. >> was there anything specific in the documents about threats to ambassador stevens? >> no specific threats to him per se. but take a look at this facebook page the committee released not only a facebook page but it was one of this ex
he was the lead security officer in libya who testified last week about hearing. he said as early as february he was warning he didn't have enough men. he was curtailing diplomats to get in benghazi. couldn't even move around because he didn't have enough men. and the u.s. felt it was so important in this election period to get out there. he warned having no movements of almost upwards of ten days severely limited operations in benghazi. wolf, he goes onto say i have been placed in a very...
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but i'll make this point of libya. from the beginning we knew that there were radical elements in benghazi. we knew that libyans heavy participants in al qaeda and other battles in afghanistan weand we knew that in aiding the transitional government there was also a risk that in gadhafi's absence they would have an outsized impact and be a threat in the region. >> let me jump in real quick. >> just a minute. it was the republican's wing, my friend and others, who from the beginning were urging rapid intervention. i think the administration both in libya and in syria's following a very sensible policy of trying to get the politics and the strategy right before dumping weapons and military assistance -- >> right. but in terms of this timeline, it's gotten coverage that susan rice five days after the attack and speaking very consistently for the administration and was moving -- saying that this was a reaction to a spontaneous protest that was occurring. did the administration make some mistakes here in how they handled th
but i'll make this point of libya. from the beginning we knew that there were radical elements in benghazi. we knew that libyans heavy participants in al qaeda and other battles in afghanistan weand we knew that in aiding the transitional government there was also a risk that in gadhafi's absence they would have an outsized impact and be a threat in the region. >> let me jump in real quick. >> just a minute. it was the republican's wing, my friend and others, who from the beginning...
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diplomatic consulate in benghazi, libya, turned sharply political. even as we learn new details about what happened before and after the deadly attack. let's go to cnn's foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty. she's got the latest information. how did it go, jill? >> reporter: wolf, i can tell you it was extremely vi tri alic. we heard this exchange extraordinary between dennis ross, congressman from florida, republican, directly asking the ambassador, patrick kennedy, whether or not there was any political pressure. ambassador kennedy said, on my honor after 39 years of serving i can guarantee you there was no political pressure applied. and ross countered that by saying then it was professional protocol malpractice. that is the level of discussion that we heard this afternoon. >> will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. >> reporter: within minutes the congressional hearing on the attack in benghazi turned into a partisan fire fight. >> sir, there were seven. and their job was also to hook up with the -- >> point of order.
diplomatic consulate in benghazi, libya, turned sharply political. even as we learn new details about what happened before and after the deadly attack. let's go to cnn's foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty. she's got the latest information. how did it go, jill? >> reporter: wolf, i can tell you it was extremely vi tri alic. we heard this exchange extraordinary between dennis ross, congressman from florida, republican, directly asking the ambassador, patrick kennedy, whether or...
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consulate in benghazi, libya. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> just 13 days until the presidential election and the obama and romney campaigns, they are kicking into overdrive as the candidates make their final push to win the white house. cnn correspondents are following their every move. they're reporting from coast to coast and from all the most crucial states, any one of which has the potential to decide who the next president of the united states will be. let's begin this hour's coverage in iowa where president obama kicked off a two-day coast-to-coast swing through eight states. he's calling it a campaign marathon extravaganza. likening it to an all-nighter. no surprise his itinerary consistents almost entirely of battleground states. cnn's chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is traveling with the president. >> reporter: wolf, president obama is hopping around the nation stumping for early votes and undecided voters. it's the kind of whirlwind tour you usually see in the last 48 hours before el
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ambassador to libya. but security concerns stalled the fbi visit until today. and there is yet another new low for mortgage rates. the national average is 3.36% for a 30-year fixed rate and 2.69% for a 15-year mortgage. the latest drop is due to the federal reserve's new stimulus program of buying up mortgage backed securities. and on the high side of new records, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg announced today that more than 1 billion people now are actively using his social network every month. facebook stock jumped 2% after the announcement but gave up most of that gain by the end of the day. a billion people on facebook. i don't think that's too terribly surprising. >> one billion people? >> one billion people. >> thanks very much. see how that stock does in the coming weeks. >> we'll see. >>> we're awaiting the start of the president's campaign rally in madison, wisconsin. you're looking at live pictures coming in from madison right now. this is the second campaign stop of the day. earlier the president, he was aggressively going after mitt romney, something
ambassador to libya. but security concerns stalled the fbi visit until today. and there is yet another new low for mortgage rates. the national average is 3.36% for a 30-year fixed rate and 2.69% for a 15-year mortgage. the latest drop is due to the federal reserve's new stimulus program of buying up mortgage backed securities. and on the high side of new records, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg announced today that more than 1 billion people now are actively using his social network every month....
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whether you're talking about the economy, what happened in libya and the lack of preparation for that. so it is a delicate road to kind of walk down. got to make a very powerful case against him. at the same time you have to respect him. on the other hand just standing up there with the president of the united states being next to him, if you fight him to a draw, you'll probably win because now you're on the same stage as the president, the same level with him. and the president has his own challenges also. >> i'm told by some of the president's supporters some of his advisor ifs he goes after romney, and i'm sure he will, it will be in part the flip-flops over the years. something you're familiar with. i'm going to play a clip. this is what you said on msnbc about mitt romney in december of last year. >> i have never seen a guy, and i've run a lot of elections, supported a lot of people, never seen a guy change his positions on so many things so fast on a dime. everything. >> all right. so when the president goes after him as a flip-flopper, how does he respond to that charge? and yo
whether you're talking about the economy, what happened in libya and the lack of preparation for that. so it is a delicate road to kind of walk down. got to make a very powerful case against him. at the same time you have to respect him. on the other hand just standing up there with the president of the united states being next to him, if you fight him to a draw, you'll probably win because now you're on the same stage as the president, the same level with him. and the president has his own...
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welcome back from libya. and also, democratic strategist bill burton is joining us. he's with the super pac, priorities usa action. also, a fellow buffalonian. good to have a fellow buffalonian on this set. listen to this little comment we just heard from the republican nominee. >> well, i'm not going to lay out a piece of legislation here, because i intend to work together with republicans and democrats in congress. but there are a number of ways one could approach this. one would be to have a total cap number. it could be $25,000, $50,000. and people could put twhawhatev deduction in that total cap they'd like. >> so he's trying to explain how he would pay for the across-the-board tax cut that he wants to see implemented for all americans, rich, middle class, everyone gets a tax cut, but he would pay for that by eliminating some loopholes, deductions, exemptions, credits. and he said maybe there would be a cap, $25,000, $50,000. that would be it. what do you think about that? >> well, i think if you listen to that interview, he undercuts his whole economic argument
welcome back from libya. and also, democratic strategist bill burton is joining us. he's with the super pac, priorities usa action. also, a fellow buffalonian. good to have a fellow buffalonian on this set. listen to this little comment we just heard from the republican nominee. >> well, i'm not going to lay out a piece of legislation here, because i intend to work together with republicans and democrats in congress. but there are a number of ways one could approach this. one would be to...
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so the iranians have been trying to get arms from libya to gaza. they're getting arms via sudan to gaza. >> contacted by cnn an official at iran's mission to the u.n. strongly rejected what he called those baseless allegations. we tried repeatedly but could not get sudanese officials in washington and at the u.n. to respond to the claims that their country is working with iran to smuggle weapons to hamas. wolf. >> is widespread an assumption that this would not necessarily be the first time israel has struck inside sudan. >> that's right, wolf. there are strong indications they have done that before. in 2009 at least one convoy carrying weapons in sudan was targeted from the air. it was widely believed that israel carried out that strike to disrupt a flow of weapons to gaza. and last year an air strike killed two people in a car in port sudan in both incidents -- well, in the latest incident last year, those people were believed to be weapons traffickers. in neither incident did israel comment one way or the other. they didn't confirm nor deny it.
so the iranians have been trying to get arms from libya to gaza. they're getting arms via sudan to gaza. >> contacted by cnn an official at iran's mission to the u.n. strongly rejected what he called those baseless allegations. we tried repeatedly but could not get sudanese officials in washington and at the u.n. to respond to the claims that their country is working with iran to smuggle weapons to hamas. wolf. >> is widespread an assumption that this would not necessarily be the...
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the iranians are trying to get arms from libya to gaza, from sudan to gaza. >> an official at iran's mission, we tried repeatedly but could not get sudanese officials to respond to the claims that their country is working with iran to smuggle weapons to hamas. >> thank you. just a handful of counties could turn some of these states red or blue on election day. we're on the ground in the battle ground states. humans -- even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why, at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiveness if you qualify. see what else comes standard at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? ♪ atmix of energies.ve the world needs a broader that's why we're supplying natural gas to generate cleaner electricity... that has around 50% fewer co2 emissions than coal. and it's also why, with our partner in brazil, shell is producing ethanol - a biofuel made from renewable sugarcane. >>a minute, mom! let's broaden the world's energy
the iranians are trying to get arms from libya to gaza, from sudan to gaza. >> an official at iran's mission, we tried repeatedly but could not get sudanese officials to respond to the claims that their country is working with iran to smuggle weapons to hamas. >> thank you. just a handful of counties could turn some of these states red or blue on election day. we're on the ground in the battle ground states. humans -- even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into...
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. >> >> i think biden has the most trouble with the questions about libya at the beginning. and fosh ryan, i think that -- i thought the most interesting moment, the highest risk moment was him really underscoring their opposition to abortion in a way i have rarely heard in a republican ticket. the romney campaign will be opposed to abortion except in the cases of rape, increst and the life of the mother. i'm sure there are a lot of democratic strategies how they're going to use that line in advertising aimed at voters. >> i think for ryan the abortion question was difficult. you could see the dial test i believe of women sort of trending down. that is their problem. i also think that biden kind of got him on the stimulus request. >> that was tough, too. >> where, you hate the stimulus program, you say it was terrible. why did you write me two letters. >> asking you for money? >> yeah. >> let me play a little clip, a mon taj of some of the style we saw in the debate. >> and whether he we -- our adversaries are much willing to test us and our -- >> with you with all due respe
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in libya, he didn't agree with the general theory of leading from behind. if we had led from the front, we would have some stronger input as to who the leadership was there. in syria, he pointed out that the president said a year ago, that assad had to go and had virtually done nothing significant in that period of time. and he ran, he condemned the president for not supporting the green movement that took place there. and on russia, he really differed with the president, because mitt romney does feel that putin has ambitions to make the russian empire another soviet union again, and the president, in his whispering asides to medvedev said -- the words were, in essence, let me get through the selection, and i will be flexible afterwards. those are four major areas that he underscored the difference on, and those are the four major areas that have to be addressed properly, if this country is going to deal with the future. >> i was struck at the softening, though. and i've covered him over the past several years, and i definitely sensed a softening. and i was
in libya, he didn't agree with the general theory of leading from behind. if we had led from the front, we would have some stronger input as to who the leadership was there. in syria, he pointed out that the president said a year ago, that assad had to go and had virtually done nothing significant in that period of time. and he ran, he condemned the president for not supporting the green movement that took place there. and on russia, he really differed with the president, because mitt romney...
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has a new man on the ground in libya and kate bolduan is watching that. >> pope comes out of retirement to take the job. he speaks arabic and french and spent 12 years in the ranks before retiring. he served as ambassador to chad and held other senior posts. >>> syria is now accusing turkey of lying about a syrian airliner that was forced to land by turkish fighter jets. turkey says the flight from moscow to damascus was carrying military equipment, which turkish officials seized. syria, though, says there's no truth to that. russia is also protesting the interception. there were 17 russians onboard the flight. >>> and we now know what caused the death of that panda cub at washington's national zoo last month. officials say the 6-day-old cub liver wasn't getting enough oxygen. very sad in washington. >>> finally, if you find your friend's political postings on facebook annoying, you are not alone. 20% of people in a recent pew survey admit to blocking, unfriending or hiding someone because of their comments. the other side has tried to silence them with false reports of spam and harassm
has a new man on the ground in libya and kate bolduan is watching that. >> pope comes out of retirement to take the job. he speaks arabic and french and spent 12 years in the ranks before retiring. he served as ambassador to chad and held other senior posts. >>> syria is now accusing turkey of lying about a syrian airliner that was forced to land by turkish fighter jets. turkey says the flight from moscow to damascus was carrying military equipment, which turkish officials...